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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear

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